Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk)

Autobiography (incomplete), 1998 Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Autobiography (incomplete), 1998

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Biographical and personal: Nancy Prouty Dey reminiscences of Tyler, 2014 Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Biographical and personal: Nancy Prouty Dey reminiscences of Tyler, 2014

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Biographical, 2014. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes obituary.

Diary (five-year "A Line A Day" diary), 1933-1937. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes inscription: "From Len, Christmas 1926" and note on final page: "I have written a three-hundred and sixty-five page book in the last five years, It contains the life of an average American schoolgirl from fifteen thru nineteen years of age. Her last years in Buckingham Junior High School, three years in Classical High School, and first year in Worcester Art School. This book shows the humor, pathos and drama found in the daily life of an adolescent. Finis."

Diary (five-year "A Line A Day" diary), 1933-1937.

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Diary (five-year "A Line A Day" diary), 1938-1942. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents Includes re: working at Camp Elektor in the summers of 1938-1940, with entries for 1938 describing "A better than excellent crop of pediculosis. I have 4 rapped [sic] up in distilled vinegar and larkspur" and, the following day, "Still bug hunting. I shampoo'ed 33 heads during the course of the day. And my own."; her 21st birthday (March 26, 1939): "I'm of age. Today I am a man!"; and working in New York City. In her entries for September 1939, she notes, "I'm going to get a book and read on...

Diary (five-year "A Line A Day" diary), 1938-1942.

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Diary, 1943. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes re: Harry going overseas.

Diary, 1943.

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Diary, 1944 Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Diary, 1944

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Diary, 1945. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes re: Harry being back from the war and Hank's development.

Diary, 1945.

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Diary, 1946. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes re: John's birth and circumcision, with Tyler reporting he "Took it like a man."

Diary, 1946.

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Diary, 1980-1994. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes re: travel.

Diary, 1980-1994.

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Diary: Europe, 1998. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes sketches.

Diary: Europe, 1998.

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Diary: China, 2000. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Diary: China, 2000.

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Diary: Italy, 2001. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes sketches, 1998-2001.

Diary: Italy, 2001.

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"Memory book": scrapbook compiled by Tyler, 1919-1938. Digital

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Collection: Papers of Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Woodward) Tyler, ca.1846-2019 (inclusive), 1932-1945 (bulk) / Series: Series I, BIOGRAPHICAL, PERSONAL, AND ARTWORK, 1919-2014 (#1.1-6.5, FD.1-FD.3, F+D.1-F+D.3, 17F+B.1v, E.1-E.4)

Scope and Contents

Includes detailed captions; locks of Tyler's hair; letters (including one labeled "one of the first letters I ever wrote"); Tyler's "baby ring"; "souvenir of air flight over Springfield," from Tyler's first plane ride in 1931; dance cards; corsages; souvenirs including sugar cubes, hay (from hay rides), confetti (from football game), seaweed, and sand; menus and programs; movie ticket stubs; and poems.